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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Seminary \Sem"i*na*ry\, n.; pl. {Seminaries}. [L. seminarium,
     fr. seminarius belonging to seed, fr. semon, seminis, seed.
     See {Seminal}.]
     1. A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants
        for transplantation; a nursery; a seed plat. [Obs.]
        --Mortimer.


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              But if you draw them [seedling] only for the
              thinning of your seminary, prick them into some
              empty beds.                           --Evelyn.
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     2. Hence, the place or original stock whence anything is
        brought or produced. [Obs.] --Woodward.
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     3. A place of education, as a scool of a high grade, an
        academy, college, or university.
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     4. Seminal state. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne.
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     5. Fig.: A seed bed; a source. [Obs.] --Harvey.
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     6. A Roman Catholic priest educated in a foreign seminary; a
        seminarist. [Obs.] --Jer. Taylor.
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